I'm sure it's very possible, all it would do would be click a button that operates in the same way as kill him, just change the variables

I'll even take a look at it now myself, but I can't claim to know anything about modding. Still, always somewhere to start, eh?
I'd like to see a more useful implimentation of the loansharks ability to store your gold. Right now the only thing useful about him that I can see if his ability to give you interest, but at the 8% I'm being offered it isn't exactly amazing. Even if I put a million gold in, that's only 8000 a month, and when you get to Admiral you make about 3 or 4k a DAY from your land. Admittably yes the interest rate is good, and it's accurate to what it's designed for, but something to beef up the Loanshark, improve his usefulness, that kinda thing. I was thinking along the lines of changing it from a loanshark to a contactor. You can take out loans and stuff from him still, but you can also rent ships and other stuff. The cost of renting a ship could be on a monthly basis, say 20% of the cost per month. 'Course, I havn't really thought that through yet so that 20% is just an example, it could go horribly awry.
On another note, would it be possible to throw objects at the Pirate Lord until he agreed to do shiny stuff? Translated from Xiathorn into English, that means "Would it be possible to give jobs to the Pirate Lord, like assasinate somebody." For example, in those missions where you are ment to go do something, especially in the Main Quest (example : go sink the french barge that's headed for Oxbay, something like quest 3) you could hire a pirate ship to sail into FDF, aim cannons at the Barge, and blow it out of the water. Just a thought

Assasination missions just seem kinda cool...especially if people put them on you the more famous you get
